Word: martyrdom
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...system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended martyrdom can totally obscure the indictment against a school program that places education on a political basis and stumbles along in a thirty-year...
...they did, Gruner's "martyrdom" would undoubtedly increase world pressure on Britain. If they did not, law enforcement in Palestine would be at the mercy of pressure groups using terrorism. This week a military court sentenced three Jews to death for complicity in the flogging of a British major...
Sheep's Clothing. Being Displaced Persons is nothing new to the Mennonites. In their 422-year-old history, they have also become accustomed to martyrdom...
Tito decided to provide martyrdom. For the Archbishop had become the only spokesman for Yugoslavs, rendered voiceless and helpless by the OZNA (Tito's secret police). People knelt when Stepinac passed through the streets...
...more convincing, though here too, at points, his admiration carries him away. Oscar, he insists, was an "innately happy" man, who "never experienced a day's unhappiness until he was 40 years old" (1894). Even his last years in exile on the Continent were reasonably happy; the "martyrdom has been made to look much meaner than it really...